Panel for doors, walls, and the like.



I L. DREYFUS, NEE LIPMAN. PANEL FOR DOORS, WALLS, AND THE LIKE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 22, 1915.

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PANEL FOR DOORS, WALLS, AND THE LIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 18, 19316.

Appfication filed July 22, 1915. Seria1 No. 41,264.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUCIE DnnYr s, nc LIPMAN, a citizenof the French Republic, and resident of Basel, Switzerland, have invented new and useful Improvements in Panels for Doors, Walls, and the like, of which the following is a full, clear, and en act specification.

This invention relates to the construction of panels for doors, walls and the like and has for its object so to connect the said panels with the door or wall as to enable them to be removed therefrom with relative facility.

The object of this construction is to enable doors or walls to be used as emergency exits, particularly in connection with ships cabins, sleeping compartments of railway coaches, theater exits and the like.

It is a known experience in cases of collision between ships or railway trains, that the doors thereof can, as a result, either not be opened at all or only opened with considerable difficulty since their frames are bent and their hinges, fastenings, locks or bolts, which have become displaced from their normal positions, no longer function.

According to this invention a construction is provided wherein, even on the occurrence of such disturbances, it is possible for persons shut in to effect their exit from a room.

The arrangement which forms the subject of the invention can be applied not only to doors, but also to partitions and the like and it consists in building up the dooror wall panel of a suitable number of separate plates or boards, which are secured together in as loose a manner as possible so that, in case of need, the connection can be broken with facility even by persons of no particular strength, but also, as must be obvious, so that in normal use the several parts of the panel hold together and close.

The separate parts of the panel, according to the invention, are connected together by strips of fabric, leather, paper, or other suitable material and preferably by gluing the said strips although any other mode of securing them, as by nails orscrews, may be adopted. These strips, in case of necessity, must be torn old so that the parts of the panel fall away and permit of a passage to the exterior. In order to facilitate the tearing off of the securing strips special devices may be adopted, say handles or the like provided upon the separate panel parts,

or handles or the like may be provided upon the tear-0d strips themselves. The tearing off may also be facilitated by arranging behind the strips, in slits specially provided therein for the purpose, cords, wires, chains, bands or the like which extend along the whole length of the individual slits of the tear-off strips and so assist in removing the latter. In this case the arrangement may be such that the wires or the like used for tearing off may not only tear off the strips but also cut them out.

The accompanying drawing illustrates applications of the invention.

In the said drawing: Figure 1 is a front view of a panel constructed according to the invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section on the line II-II, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line III-III, Fig. 1. Fig. 4: is a front view illustrating a modification, ancl Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8 are views of details hereinafter described.

Figs. 1 to 3 show the application of the invention to doors or walls. The panel consists of four boards 1, usually of wood and which are held together by the longitudinal strips 2 and the transverse strips 3 preferably attached by an adhesive. The handles 4 serve, in case of need, to tear the panel boards apart. As above described, cords or wires 5 may be laid around the tear-off strips 2 and 3, as represented in said figures, for facilitating the dismemberment of the panel. This arrangement is shown on a large scale separately in Fig. 8; in this case a handle 6 is provided on the front part of the cord 5 which is passed around the strip 2. The cord 5 may either be passed completely around the tear-on? strip or the latter may, as shown in Fig. 8, be divided into sections each of which has a cord or the like 5 passed around it.

In Fig. i the panel, is shown divided into several rows of sections or pieces; in other respects this construction is the same as that above described. In order to impart a greater hold to the panel the outer parts thereof may, as shown in Fig. 5, be incased in frames, for example, of U-iron 9; in lieu of LI -iron, T- or angle-iron may obviously be made use of; or, as shown in Fig. 6, a flat iron bar 10 may be employed together with a recessed part of the frame.

As will be seen from Fig. 6, a strip 7 may be used in addition to the strip 2 on the opposite face of the panel.

In Fig. 7 there is shown an arrangement in which both the front and rear tear-off strips 2 and 7 are provided with a tear-off device 5 or 8. p

What I claim is:

1. A panel for doors, walls and the like, built up of a number of separate sections connected together in the plane of the panel by easily detachable strips so arranged as to allow of an easy dismemberment of the panel by loosening said strip connection, substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. A panel for doors, Walls and the like, built up of a number of separate sections connected together in the plane of the panel by easily detachable strips so arranged as to allow of an easy dismemberment of the panel by loosening said strip connection, said strips being provided with tear-01f members for facilitating the loosening of the strip connection, substantially as and connected together in. the plane of the panel byeasily detachable strips so arranged as to allow of an easy dismemberment of the panel by loosening said strip connection, said strips being provided with tear-off members, which, when being manipulated, allow of a cutting of the strips, substantially as and for the purpose described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 28th day of June 1915, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LUCIE DREYFUS, NEE LIPMAN.

Witnesses ARNOLD ZUBER, AMAND BRAUN.

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